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[–] Crow@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If I want to break my computer I should be able to break my computer!

[–] darthpenis69@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's right! By worshipping the almighty penguin he gives us the power to make our expensive computers into useless novelty items.

[–] TechyShishy@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look, if we want to spend 6 hours rebuilding our MBR/GPT, bootsector, and efi partition from scratch, using our grandfather's butterfly, we should be allowed to. Insert angry xkcd here.

[–] darthpenis69@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There's always a relevant XKCD, isn't there?

This reminds me of my favorite (slightly off topic) https://xkcd.com/705/

[–] TechyShishy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although honestly, these days we could probably do it in about 2 minutes, blindfolded, with our hands tied behind our backs. Damn, the tools have gotten better, haven't they?

[–] mack123@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

This is a fact and a half. Ihave been using linux on and off for a headless Minecraft server. Vanilla Debian. Yesterday I decided to load up the latest Ubuntu lts, to run stable diffusion. My first end user linux install in ages. And it was a 15 minute seamless experience. From boot ISO to running a normal functioning desktop. Add another hoiur and stable diffusion was up and running. A far cry from building slackware from, from source, in the early 2000s. It truly is amazing when we consider what has been achieved.

[–] Jeom@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

task managers creator added a function to kill the entire pc. but people reported it as a bug and someone else at Microsoft removed it

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Dave Plummer is a fricking legend!

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I also use youtube

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Trying to de-bloat KDE feels like a game of chicken. Whichever K-application I try to uninstall, I get a prompt asking me to confirm if I want to uninstall a plethora of important-sounding kde packages. It gambles on me not knowing which "kde-[...]" packages are vital for KDE Plasma to run, so I don't take the chance on uninstalling the email client, multimedia programs etc.

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, yes, it might sound a little bit silly, but it is actually simply about the right to make use of the tech you own in the way you see fit, which should be a fundamental freedom AND right. It's the Windows users that look ridiculous from any sane perspective, though I try not to judge people based on their choice of OS lol

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Except if you try to use dolphin file-manager as root .... fail. I'm still annoyed at Martin Graeslin for forcing that change.

Yes, I know it is simple to patch out. But that would mean I need to recompile dolphin after every update, and assume responsibility for keeping any metapackage that uses it up to date too. Blegh.